Jewelry for all ages

No need for precious gold when you can have silver Bob Marley is famous for many of his quotes and one of those is, “don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.” His words may be valuable than any precious metal but a collection of teensy tiny trinkets […]

A ready reckoner of our world

In their book Good Economics Hard times, abhijit Banerjee and esther Duflo attempt to present a nuanced view of things, instead of the simplistic analysis that dominates the media today One of the challenges that I constantly encounter as someone who primarily makes a living writing on economics is to explain nuance to an audience […]

“It is important for the corporate to nurture art”

Jay Shah, Vice-President, Head – Cultural Outreach, Mahindra Group shares the vision behind the Mahindra Kabira Festival MURTAZA ALI KHAN @patriot_talks   Mahindra Kabira Festival, known for offering an immersive experience inspired by Kabir’s teachings, is back with its fourth edition. This year the festival will run from 22 – 24 November, 2019 in the […]

Celebrating craft

India Craft Week was born out of an intense desire to narrate the ‘untold stories’ of India’s very own artisans and their craft, and to give the world a view to their stories From the beautiful valleys of Kashmir to the quaint villages of Andhra, from the pictorial hills of Manipur to the starkly beautiful […]

The promise of Magnetic Medicine

The technique of trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is now being used to loosen cocaine’s nasty grip on addicts It is difficult to quantify the totality of human potential lost every year to addictions. This includes behavioural ones such as gambling, video gaming, shopping, incessant internet surfing as well as maligned substance abuse dependencies — a […]

Students on the streets

When JNU students tried to march to Parliament, the attention of the whole nation was drawn to the fee hike On November 18, 2019, the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, organised a protest march asking the government to roll back proposed changes in the Draft Hostel Manual, including a hike in the hostel fees. […]

Students clash with media, allege they were ‘harassed, groped’ by cops

Delhi police filed two FIRs in connection with the protests After the events of yesterday’s protest march by students of Jawaharlal Nehru University — when nearly 100 students were detained and several injured during a lathi-charge by the Delhi police — the Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association held a solidarity protest in support of the […]

Nine hotspots spew pollution despite apex court order

Clouds of dust, ongoing construction work in some sites, open dumping of garbage — this isn’t what the supreme court had in mind On November 4, a Supreme Court bench cited 16 “hotspot regions” in the NCR as the source for “major polluting activities” that need to be curtailed. Visits to some of these sites, […]